Sanjay Basu, Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Stanford University Prevention Research Center, answers questions from PLOS Social Media Associate Sara Kassabian. [Post updated on April 7, 2016] The burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is growing globally, with

This week PLOS Medicine publishes the following new articles: Malaria in pregnancy is responsible for the deaths of about 200,000 newborn babies and 10,000 women every year and can cause miscarriage and preterm delivery, despite

This week PLOS Medicine focuses on diet, exercise, and road safety with the following new articles: Nine years after the World Health Organization (WHO) adopted a global strategy on diet, physical activity, and health to

This week PLOS Medicine spotlights infant and child health with new articles on neonatal mortality in rural Vietnam, M. pneumonia in asymptomatic children, and research priorities for childhood diarrhoea. The journal also continues with the

With the close of the month, PLOS Medicine publishes four new articles, including a research article on reporting of clinical trials and an editorial expanding on the subject. The PLOS Medicine editors discuss the recent

Four new articles published this week in PLoS Medicine, including our monthly editorial and a new Essay returning to the need for mental health to be a noncommunicable diseases focus. In the February editorial, the

This week PLoS Medicine publishes three new articles, including a follow-up to a previously published manuscript. A systematic review and meta-analysis by Kathrin Ziegelbauer and colleagues finds that sanitation is associated with a reduced risk

This week in PLoS Medicine, five new articles were published, including a perspective on insecticide treated nets and their effects on neonatal mortality. Using the Nurses’ Health Study, Qi Sun and colleagues examine whether moderate

Guest student blog by Fiona Rae, third year medical student at the University of Edinburgh [fionaelizabethrae@gmail.com]. In September 2011 the issue of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) will be brought to the attention of a UN General